Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the most famous French director of his generation, makes a film entitled Chinese. Young actress Anne Wiazemsky plays the main role in the film. The director falls in love with the ethereal, 17 years younger beauty. She can not resist the master's magnetism. Getting married. Work on the film and its subsequent reception by the audience, however, release Godard's deep revision of the self-assessment of his current career.
The events of May 1968 deepen this process, and the ongoing crisis of values ​​that shakes Jean-Luc will change him forever. The status of the movie star Godard turns into a role blinded by the ideology of Maoism outsider. The director stops being understood by the audience, pushes away relatives and friends.